Vehicle-wheel.



- R. T.l SMITH, JR.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29,1910.

1,082,957'.v Patented Ju1y16,1912.

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ATTORNEYS v R. T. SMITH, JR..

. VBHXGLB WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.29, 1910.

Patented July 161.1912.

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YYITN ESSES GUM M l /fffamM/ i ATTORNEYS To all whom` it may concern:

UmTED STATES 'PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT THOMS SMITH, JR., OF LONGFORD BRIDGE, WARRINGTON, ENGLAND, .AS- SIIGNOR OF ONE-HALE TO LYNTON WHEEL & TYRE SYNDICATE, LIMITED, 0F LONG- FORD BRIDGE, -WARRINGTON, ENGLAND.

Application led January 29, 1910. Serial No. A540,827.

Be it known that I, Bonnin* THOMAS SMITH, Jr., a subjectI of the King of Great Britain and Ireland', of Longford Bridge, lllarrington, in the 'county of Lancaster, England, have invented new and useful Improvenients in Vehicle-lVheels,'of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to vehicle wheels in which a resil 'ent tire is (or resilient blocks constitutingr a ti e are) held in circumferential recesses, or, hannels, Joi-med at the'pe-l ripheries of two disks, .or-the equivalents. constituting the body of the wheel and mounted on the axle in such a waythat one of the .said disks is fixed as regards lateral movement. and the othery can have such movement, upon a bearing near its center, that, when the tire, or tire blocks, carried in the said recesses, or channels, is, 'or are, compressed by contact with the road, and the said lire, or tire blocks, consequently spread out laterally. the lower part of the movable disk is forced awa v from the fixed. disk and: the upper part ot' 'the said movable disk is consequently forced toward the fixed disk, so as to compress the tire, or tire blocks, at and toward the upper part of the disks, Vand spread it, or them. out in a radial direction,

and the object ot' this'invention is vto pro-` Avide a simple and etlieient wheel on this principle, in` which the. tire, or the blocks constituting the tire, is, or are( held very securely in position` and so that it, or they, can be readily removed and replaceth and it is, or they are. so formed and arranged that there is no danger of the peripheries ot' the disks, or the eipiivalents, coming into con- .tact with the road when the tire is, or blocks are, compressed.

'lhe accompanying drawings represent the improvements in accordance with this in vention.

Figure. 1' is a vertical transverse section ot the wheel. Fig. 2 is a sideI elevation of part of the wheel part-ly broken away. Fig. 3 is a circumferential section on the line A, B,

Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are simihzifsections of modifications. Fig. 3^ is a broken side elevation .showing the inner face of a modified form of disk. Fig.3 is a cross section on the lin-e ,f1/ P., Fig. 8A. Figs. and 7 are vertical transverse sections (respectively through the middle .of the block and through the part nearer the end) of part of the wheel showing a modification of lthe formiof tire, or tire blocks. 'Fig. 8,is a perspective view of one of the blocks and fasteningfdevice of `their peripheries .to hold similarly shaped protl'i'berances 4 on the blocks constitutingr` the tire.' The disk 2 is fixed to the sleeve 5 by passing bolts 6 through the tiange T of the sleeve 5 through the said disk 2 through a filling piece 8 through a iange 10A ori an externally screwed collar' piece 11, which fits f on -the sleeve 5, and through a strut disk 9. rIhis .strut disk Q'is for the purpose ot' giving rigidity to the disk 2 and is riveted to it toward the peripherv as shown. The open` ing in the. middle of the disk 1 is made larger than that 1n the disk 2,`and 1s provided wlth a rounded r1ng-piece 12, which' bears against this modification. Figft) shows a 'modifica-4 a curved seating on a ring piece 12 screwed on the collar-piece 11. these bearing parts being such as to allow of some little play between them to permit ot movement ofthe disk 1, as

hereinbefore explained. The ring piece 13 is secured in place by any suitable means, for example by a locking piecellt, secured to the ring piece 13 by a screw as shown. or othe" wise, and engaging in recesses' in the rim of thering piece 13 and in the end of the. sleeve 11 so as to secure the ring piece 13 in place when the disk 1 has been forced toward the disk 2by the said piece 13,.s0 that the blocks constituting the tire will be held.-

firmly between the said disks, rounded, or Apartly' spherical, protuberances 4 of the tire blocks being held inthe corre- By the' spondinglyshaped recesses, or cups, '3, near.

the peripheries of the disks'l' and 2, each tire block is, by this very sim le and Secure means, held securely both rom creeping around the wheel and from becoming separated froml the wheel. Fig 4 shows the recesses, or cups, 3 made deeper, and Fig. 5 shows a complete tirecmolded with similar part-ly spherical protuberances 4 and similarly held in the recesses, or cups, 3 against creeping and against becoming separated fromthe Wheel` Instead of the re- `cesse's or cups 3 beingv made in the disks themselves they maybe made in annular strips attached to the rims of Athe disks for example by countersunk rivets as at- 25. Part of such a strip is shown in Fig. 3^.

Figs. G. T and S show a modification wherein. 'instead of the recesses, or cups. the blocks are received in plain channels efe tending around the disks 1 and 2, creepingY being prevented b v any suitable means, such vas projections a: riveted to the disks, or one ot' them. and comingr between each two adyiacent blocks, and the blocks are prevented trom becoming accidentally detached from the wheel by means ot wire retainers lGy each block beingr formed with a transverse channel 17 extending from the treads of the blocks to some distance inward and receiving a wire retainer 1G. whose ends are turned rjlownward and outward so that they are wired in.v and retained by, the turned in outer parts ot. the channels in the disks l ai i Q, as seen clearly in Fig. 6. These blockr` are made with protuberanees ld at each side adapted to tit into, and be held by. the channels in the disks l'and 2.

The tire. or thel blocks constituting the tire. extend a sutiicient distant/e beyond the peripheries ot lthe disks 1 and Q and have circumferential grooves, as shown at v1S) in Figs. 1 and G, which grooves receive the turnedin, and preterably beaded, edges of the disks 1 and 2, the material of the tire. or blocks, extending' out sidewise, as at- Q0, at a short distance from 'the rims of the disks 1 and 2, so that these extensions 20, if the wheel beunder heavy load, will bear against the edges of the disks 1 and Q and preventtheir coming` into contact with the road. It' desired to increase the resiliency of the rubber, the blocks may be molded with an opening through them, as shown at 24 in Fig. 7. l

Fig. 9 represents a modification of the means whereby the movable disk 1 is hold in place. Around Vthe opening in the centen of the disk 1 is the rounded ring piece 1Q and a ring-retaining piece Q1 with a correi spondinglycurved recess in it is placed upon the axle so that the vrounded ring piece 1 2 is received in lthe curved recess in the ring retaining piece 21. There is also placed on the axle a spring 22 which hears on the side ot the said piece 21 opposite the side on which the disk 1 bears, the said spring 22 being secured in place by a nut Q3 screwed on the end of the axle. The spring)P 2Q exerts sufficient force to keep the disk 1 and tire, or blocks constituting the tire. in place, while friving;r a very satisfactory capacity for yielding to allow of sulicient movement of the disk 1 under the action ot` the tire, or tire-blocks, in the manner atoresaid` while thel wheel is traveling under load. The spring 22 is merely illustration of any suitable spring device placed upon the axle in the same position. ln this gure the strut disk 9 is inside the flange, 10, instead of outside it, as in Fig. 1, but in either ease, if it be used, itmay he outside, or inside.

I claim as my invention :H

1. A vehicle wheel having two disks, one carried by a sleeve on the axle, andthe other capable otmovement when the tire is compressed under load` the said disks having around them, near their peripherics. partly spherical tireyreceiving recesses, and a rcsilient tire formedavith partlv spherical protuberances to engage the said recesses in the disks, substantially as hereinbetfore described.

2. A vehicle wheel having two disks. one carried by a sleeve on the axle, and the other apable of movement when the tire is compressed under load'. the. said disks having around them, near their peripheries, partly spherical tire receiving recesses, and a resilient tire formed with partly spherical protulicrances to engage the said recesses in the disks. in combination with means to prevent the tire. from creeping around the wheel, substantially as hereinbe'foro dcscribed.

3. A vehicle wheel having,T two diaks. one carried by a sleeve on the aide` and the other capable oi movement when the tire is compressed under load, the said disks haw ing around them, near their peripheries, partly spherical tire reecivin'f recesses. and a resilient tire formed withpartly spherical protuberances to engage'the said/ recesses in the disk, said tire extending` beyond and overlying the periphcrics ot' said disksto' prevent the same from coming in contact with the `ground 'Linder heavy stress, sub- Istantially as hereinbetore described.

4. A vehiclel wheel having two disks, one

rigid with the axle and the other havingv an inner bearing rino', a retaining piece againsty which said ring,r bears, said piece havingl limited freedom of longitudinal displacement on said axle, and a spring press. ing said retaining' piece,l in combination with a` tire gripped between the outer edges of said disks, substantially as hereinhefore described.

ln testimony whereof l have signed my naine to this specification in the presence ot two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT TllllillAS Silll'lll, JUNIOR.

Titnesses Micuanx. AUuUs'rns Troma, Guarenas MARSH. 

